Meditation Training for Growth in Consciousness

Increase your consciousness with gentle power in 4 weeks

If you want to accelerate the process of becoming more conscious in a simple yet powerful way then this is the training for you.

Consciousness is a vague concept and can be hard to quantify let alone actively increase. Over 4 weeks this training takes you through simple steps to increase your consciousness and give you tools to sustain the growth.

“Stop talking I’m in . . .”

First time taking the training – €97

Taking the training again – €47

(When you make payment you will receive an email with the access code to the training page. If you don’t receive the email within 24hrs please get in touch.)

Meditation is Boring, the Benefits are Not.

It always amazes me that whenever I go to speak about the benefits of meditation I draw a blank. I can’t think of anything, even though I know the impact meditation has had on me has been profound.

I couldn’t understand it for a long time until one day it dawned on me that I draw a blank because I am asking my mind to remember something it has no experience of.

Let me explain. When I meditate I stop thinking and I go into the mystery. From my mind’s perspective, it is like I go into a room that my mind can’t enter. It is not that I don’t want my mind to enter the room. It just can’t.

My mind has no experience of what happens in the room so when I try to remember the benefits of meditation there is nothing there for my mind to remember.

It’s almost as if my mind can only describe the benefits of meditation by deduction, like a detective looking for evidence. Here are some of the clues.

The Observer
I can see my thinking as it is happening.
When I meditate I stop thinking, or more accurately I repeatedly stop thinking.
In a 15-minute meditation, I might stop thinking 200 times.
In order to stop thinking I need to realise that I am thinking in the first place. This is not easy to do because one thought triggers another and before I know it I am on a long train of thought.
To get off the train I need to see that I am on it.

My thinking is nearly always about me,
“What am I going to do about that thing?”
“Why did that person say that thing to me?”
“Why did I say that thing to that other person?”
When I am in the middle of these thoughts they feel like they are me, like I am talking to myself. There is no separation between me and the thought.

When I remember that I am in the middle of a meditation session and turn off the thought. I indirectly demonstrate to myself that I am not the thought. Because if I am observing the thought I can’t be the thought. I can’t be the thing I am observing. I am something else entirely.

Over time this process has made me very aware of the part of me that is always observing. I just can’t take my thoughts as seriously as I once did.
The Mystery
When I stop thinking in meditation I connect with what I can only call the mystery.
It is who I am when I am not thinking and it is also so much more.
It is where I go to in deep dreamless sleep and it is the container that holds everything that I am.
Over the years of meditation, I have gone deeper and deeper into the mystery and been informed by it.
The communication is wordless and imageless.
It is direct knowledge.
It has answered so many questions without uttering a word. It has helped me recognise myself in the vastness of itself and have a sense of home I had never experienced before.
Intuition
In meditation, I am in a continual process of stopping thinking. This has made me very familiar with the way thoughts arise and how they string together to arrive at solutions.
When something is communicated from a very deep part of me, what people call intuition, it has a very different structure and quality to it.
Thinking is like joining the dots to arrive at a solution. Intuition arrives fully formed with no preceding dots. No words. Just instant knowledge.
Discernment
I have become very familiar with my inner landscape. I can tell the difference between thoughts and intuition and also the difference between thoughts, intuition, and psychic interference.
Thinking often sounds like talking to myself in my head. Sometimes it is not just my voice but voices from my past, parents, school teachers, bullies. It can get pretty rowdy in there, particularly when I am triggered.
Not all the voices in our heads are our own. Some of the voices can be psychic entities whispering for their own reasons which are not always for our benefit.
Being able to see them for what they are is of great benefit.

Wounded Child Attacks
Ever have one of those things happen where someone pulls out in front of you in traffic and you explode in your car, swearing and shouting,
or ever have someone say something to you at a party and you find it deeply cutting but logically you know it shouldn’t
and you try and forget about it but on the way home the love of your life makes an innocent comment and you take their head off viciously, get into a big fight, and find yourself at 2 am snarfing cake and pickles out of the refrigerator?
No?
Me neither, at least not anymore.
Full disclosure I never eat cake and pickles together. That’s just wrong.
In the past, if a wounded child part of me was triggered it would take me over in an instant, and could take hours for the effects to wear off.
With meditation, I find myself ahead of the wounded child part of me.
I am faster than the reaction.
I can see it coming and in the act of seeing it, I see that it is not me.
I can meet it with compassion and help it dissolve.

Calm
Kind of cliched but kind of true.
It has been 40 years since I started meditating so it is hard for me to remember what I was like before I started but I think it is fair to say I am calmer. Other people report it to me.
“You have such a calming influence.”
“You are so calm.”
I certainly feel it when I interact with other people. Some people feel like they are moving very fast, almost at double speed.
It is in feeling their speed that I know I am still.

Comfortable with Silence
I notice when I am around other people that I don’t feel the need to fill the silence with words. I am happy to talk or not depending on the flow of the interaction but when the natural silences occur in conversation I don’t feel compelled to fill them with words.
Body Sense
If I was sitting ready to meditate and someone asked me if I was comfortable I would say. “Yes of course,”
yet as soon as I closed my eyes I would realise I was in fact very uncomfortable.
This regularly happens to me when I meditate.
Through the repeated practice of taking my focus away from the distractions of my external senses and turning off my thoughts, I have become very familiar with my body from the inside out, how it feels when it is comfortable, where it likes to hold tension, and how it accumulates stress.

Boring?

I have been meditating for 40 years and I still find it difficult and boring. Yes, I know it is my mind having the difficulty and the boredom but, contrary to the popular practice of mind bashing and mind shaming, I like myself. I don’t like to label different parts of myself and then allow them to pick on each other.

What has kept me meditating all these years is seeing how it has assisted in the process of becoming more conscious. By not slicing and dicing myself into labeled parts on the inside it allows all parts of me to become more conscious, including my mind.

My mind still finds meditation difficult and boring but it will sit through it because it recognises the benefits.

40 years in 4 weeks

When I sat in my first consciousness training 40 years ago I was answering a deep call within me. I wanted to become more conscious.

Since then I have tried to answer that call in many different ways including different meditation trainings, a ten-year association with a spiritual master, getting enlightened in 1996, and having an ongoing meditation and consciousness practice.
It took me years to realise that meditation is not separate from the process of becoming more conscious.
It is not like going to the gym.
It is not something separate from your life.

This is the first time I have put my years of experience together in a training in which you can get the benefit of my 40 years in 4 weeks.

At the end of each training, there is a question and answer session to help you in your meditation practice.

The training is delivered over Zoom. Participating in the live Zoom call will allow you to get the most out of the training. You will be able to resonate with me and get the benefit of my many years of meditation.

To help people in different time zones participate in the live Zoom call I am going to deliver the training twice each Monday. Once in my morning and again in my evening. No matter what time zone you are in you will be able to participate in the live Zoom call. If you can participate in both, even better.

Along with the training you will also get access to the Further Emergence discord where you can access the Further Emergence community, arrange meditation sessions, and give and receive support.

Some of the topics covered in the training –

At the end of this training, you will know how to actively focus your growth in consciousness
You will experience the difference between consciousness and awareness
You will see the myth of the “busy mind”
You will learn how to track your thoughts to their origin
You will discover how to use sensation to access your presence
You will know the mystery of your presence
You will learn how to use your eyes to assist you in growing your consciousness
You will discover ways of seeing through the illusion of reality
You will come to see aspects of your unconsciousness in action
You will see how consciousness and awareness work together
You will learn the place of “Meditation,” in consciousness growth
You will see the place of resistance
You will see why momentum exists and learn how to overcome it
You will learn to increase the speed of your consciousness
You will discover how to overcome the resistance of your unconsciousness
You will have access to the support of the discord community

Week One – Consciousness

Consciousness and how it grows
What is meditation, and how does it help?
How to meditate for growth in consciousness.
Understanding the practicalities
Short cuts

Week Two – Resistance

Dealing with resistance
Disengaging your mind with compassion
Using the sensation in your body to go deeper
Putting your minds commentary on meditation in its place

Week Three – Origins

Following thoughts to their root
Using breath
Differentiating deeper thoughts
Navigating your inner space
Letting go of assumptions

Week Four – Presence

Awareness and presence
Consciousness in everyday life
How to maintain your meditation practice
Being flexible
The easiest meditation

Logistics

The training begins on Monday the 25th of September and runs for 4 weeks.

To help people in different time zone participate in the live zoom call I am going to deliver the training twice each Monday. Once in my morning and again in my evening. No matter what time zone you are in you will be able to participate in the live zoom call. If you can participate in both, even better.

The first session will be at 10am Irish time and the second session will be at 9pm Irish time.